Ethical Audit Report of Hp

Table of Contents
Executive summary 1

List of abbreviations and glossary terms 4

List of figures 5

Brief company overview 6

Part A: Identifies ethical dilemmas facing HP and provides stakeholders’ perspective on those dilemmas 6

Overview of ethical dilemmas 6

1. Environment 6

1.1. Ethical issues in operations 6

1.2. Ethical issues in products 8

2. The scandal 9

3. Superdome test sabotaged 9

4. Stakeholders’ perspectives 9

4.1. Environment 10

4.2. The scandal 11

4.3. Superdome tests sabotaged 13

Part B: Evaluates the importance of each dilemmas and finds the main ones, assesses how HP is dealing with them by applying ethical theories 14

1. Environmental issues 14

2. The scandal 22

Part C Find out the best ethical practices and values of HP in real life 24

Part D Summarizes HP’s solutions for all of its ethical issue and gives recommendations to answer them 29

References 31

Books 31

Presentation 31

Internet 31

Journals 32

Reports 32

Appendixes 34

Appendix A Email from HP Environmental Support Specialist 34

Appendix B: Diagram of stakeholder theory 37

List of abbreviations and glossary terms

- CO2 – Carbon dioxide

- CSI – Corporate Sustainability Index

- CSR – Corporate Social Responsibility

- EICC – Electronic Industry Code of Conduct

- GHG – Greenhouse gas

- GDP – Gross domestic product

- ICCP – International Climate Change Partnership

- NCF – National Cristina Foundation

- NGOs – Non-governmental organizations

- SBC – Standards of Business Conduct

- SMEs – Small and medium-sized enterprises

- SOS – Security Outsourcing Solutions

- WWF – World Wildlife Fund

List of figures

Figure 1 – Ethical dilemmas that HP is facing Page 4

Figure 2 – different perspectives of stakeholders on environmental issues Page 8-9

Figure 3 – stakeholders’ perspectives on the scandal Page